The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-19

and sheep of the Nathaniel Thayer estate
In Lancaster, Mass was burned the other
hiaht. Two other barns were damaged.
Loss, $75, 900.
THE whaling bark Europa, Captain Hall,
and crew Of thirty-two were wrecked
April 12 of the coast of Japan. No partic-
ulars were given. The Europa was owned
by Aiken & Swift, New Bedford, Mass,
and left San Francisco December IL last
Seaf,
THE Supreme Council Of the Catholic
knights of America concluded its biennial
session at Chicago on the 18th. John b.
Coleman, Of New Orleans, was elected SUI.
preme president; &: F. ORourke. Fort
Wayne, vice president John Barr, Deba-
non, KY, secretary; NJ j. O'Brien, Chatta-
nooga, treasurer; J. j. Duffy, Memphis, j.
J. McEnery, Brooklyn, and j. A. Schwartz,
| trustees.
A NUMBER of university students created
a riot in Vienna the other night by kissing
| Prof Massen for his anti-German speech in
the Reichstag. Four were arrested.
a SPECIAL from Peoria, Ill, OF the 18th
says: 1t is believed here that the whisky
pool will be reorganized at once. Distil-
| lers are said to have big scheme on hand,
THERE was a slight shock of earthquake
at Summerville and slight rumbling at
| Charleston, S. c., on the night OF the 18th.
The vibration was not greater than would
be caused by loaded wagon passing along
| the street.
A TORNADO swept over Gage County,
Neb., on the 18th, striking the town of Blue
| Springs. All telegraph wires were down
and only meager reports were at hand.
! Several houses were leveled and church
unroofed One man at least was struck by
| lightning and instantly killed.
A DESPERATE fight took place the other
day among the silver miners in the noun.
tains, about sixteen miles from Hot
Springs, Ark, in which a noted miner and
proprietor, J. A. Wilson, was killed.
THERE have been five earthquake shocks
at Nogales, A. T., lately. The heaviest was
at $50 on the morning of the 18th, and
caused many clocks in the town to stop.
AN accident occurred recently at Coal
valley few miles from McKeesport, Pa
which resulted in the burning to death OF
Mrs. Cook and her two little children, and
in the total destruction of the house. She
was using petroleum oil to kindle fire.
PETER j. FORD of the Ford q Ryan Mo-
rocco Company, and an extensive real es
| tate owner, contractor and builder, OF VIII.
mington, Del, has failed. Liabilities, $780,
| UUU. assets, ScU,OOV
ADIsPATCH from st. Petersburg says tha
it is reported that a nihilist student made
an attempt upon the life of the Governor OF
Astrakhan, and is said to have severely
wounded him by firing at him with a re,
| volyer.
SHERMAN FINITY, of Dyer's Station, Ark.
was entangled in a saw mill belt recently
and cut in two by the large saw.
| ~ \ 10 fpF
an anti-corn law league and propose to pusl
the matter vigorously.
THREE directors of the glassworks at Vol
lerstall, Alsace, have been expelled foI
drilling workmen in the French militar,
| tactics.
| CARvALHo BROTHERS & Co, West 1ndii
merchants, of London, have failed witt
liabilities aggregating G7O. 600.
By the capsizing of boat recently in tn
bay at Milwaukee, Wis, August Strelov
and Ferdinand Rusch, young men, wer
drowned. Herman Fischer the third oc
cupant of the boat, swan ashore.
CUSTOM officers seize 115 cases marke,
nut oil'' on the stea mer Rio de Janeirt
which arrived at San Francisco recently
from China, and upon being opened the.
| were found to contain Theoretically seale
cans of opium.
The steamer Empire State was reporte
on fire at Bristol, R. l., on the morning o
the l4th.
IT is positively and officially denied tha
the cashier of the Wills County Nationa
Bank of Joliet, Ill, has been found in tn
least short in his accounts.
In pursuance of an agreeme mt among th
employers, ten thousand men in the Chi
cago building trades were locked out on tn
| 14th